Building Dreams, Transforming Lives - August 2025

As parents, our children are our everything. They bring us joy as well as grief and  disappointment. We parents and grandparents spend lots of time and money educating  our children. Just to clothe, educate, buy groceries, and provide housing costs a fortune! We love our children, young and old, with all our souls, hoping they will turn out to be good people. 

But what about those children who have a horrible home life? What happens to them?  They want the same things our children have.. They want a home, clothes, food, an  education, and a loving family. They want to leave the good life. However, these  children usually have existing circumstances with their parents or have no parents. They  become homeless. They live in a car or couch surf from one friend to another, not  knowing where meals or sleep will be. Sometimes these children are young teen  mothers. Now there will be a baby involved with no home, living from couch to couch, or living in a car.  

I can’t imagine this situation. Thank heavens for the Unaccompanied Student Initiative. USI provides a safe home, schooling, and all the support a young teen needs so they  will be able to graduate high school and become a productive part of society. 

However, USI is not able to house homeless teen moms. That is where our church comes in. Our 100^th Anniversary will be in January 2026. To celebrate, we are raising $202,600 to give to USI to help build a home for homeless teen moms. There is nowhere in our City, County, or State for a homeless teen mom to go for help with housing, schooling, and the support a young mother needs. Ask any mother, and she will tell you,  it is not an easy task having a baby, let alone being homeless. 

There are 5 months left in our campaign, and under $27,000 to raise. We can do it!!! Join  us in contributing generously.  

A big thank you to all those who have pledged money to this campaign. Thank you to  those who are still working on fundraisers for the campaign, and an even bigger thank you to our God who is leading us on this journey.

Judy Osborn